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Are smart people just naturally attracted to study art or perform music, dance, or drama? Or does early education in the arts actually cause changes in the brain that develop important components of cognition? Recent findings show that there may be some significant causal relationships between arts training and the brain's ability to learn. Read More
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Mind verses Brain
Mind verses Brain is always the debate I have with fellow practitioners of Creative Arts Therapy here in New York State.
Kathy discusses what neuroscience is discovering about the brain and learning in a normal brain. We still struggle to comprehend the effects that a damaged brain can have on the mind's behavioral systems, such as personality, psychotic behavior, hallucinations and every other aspect of a human beings health and learning process.
It would seem to make sense to join the medical model, educational model and the neuroscience model to our understanding of the intra psychic world. The easiest way to do this would be to find a common denominator and join them all. Hum, wouldn't that be a task to accomplish?
Maureen Del Giacco, LCAT
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